Nest Building

A new year is upon us. January got swept away in a sea of Polyfilla and Dulux.
And now here we are. In our new home :)

Terrible hair but check out my super long pregnancy nails!

The only appropriate meal for the first supper in our new family kitchen

How is it that I am sitting in our kitchen (on our new 'kissing' bench, as we like to call it) in our FAMILY home? I love this house. And I love the stories that this house will bring.

We've been in two weeks now, after a crazy DIY frenzy trying to meet the deadline we'd nervously made to empty our Big Yellow Storage. It had to happen one day, what with April approaching like a speedy time-warping gazelle and all. Jon has worked so tirelessly in preparing the nest for us and the place has almost transformed into our Pinterest dreams. I have enjoyed many post-painting hot baths with my Muji aroma diffuser and a couple of church candles (who needs the decadent budget for a yummy-mummy-to-be spa session when you can have it upstairs everyday. Upstairs! We have stairs!). Yep, that new bath is gooood.

I'm a bit late for new year's resolutions and what not but I am pretty sure that 2014 is going to be awesome. I'm going to achieve my lifetime goal of learning to be a Mummy - you can't get a better than that.

Happy 2014!

October...

October! Nice to see you again.

I'm not sure how we got here. Maybe it's because I slept my way through a lot of September (I've been a little under the weather). But I'm very happy to see you.

You let me snuggle under the blanket, sharing chocolate with Jonny. You bring on the smoky smells of fireworks and chimmneys billowing into the night sky. Yep, it's a good time of year. Not to mention what it leads to. Eek!

I've been doing a lot of said snuggling under the blanket lately. We've also had an offer accepted on a little house (very exciting... trying to calmly play the waiting game now whilst solicitors go on holidays and things. Yes. I know they are allowed a break too. Now though? Really? We have a house to plan!). Anyway, this combination of hibernation and future nesting has led me to these beauties...

Clockwise: The incredible Eleanor Pritchard's Easterly Blanket/ The beautifully geometric Norwegian Gullfuglen Jacquard Blanket/ The perfect bear hug with Etsy Seller Roxy Marj's Heirloom Bear Blanket/ And, being half Welsh it's only appropriate to include a gorgeous Melin Tregwynt Welsh Knot Garden Throw

This lazy bones could use them all. Is it just me?